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- From: ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk (John Franks)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS & MS-DOS ASSIGN
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.095643.27795@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 09:56:43 GMT
- References: <1992Sep08.100204.27562@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Sep8.151548.6055@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- >Both ASSIGN and SUBST will not work with networked drives (I wish it
- >would!) Blame Microsoft. It's documented in the DOS 5.0 manual.
-
- No. The manual entry for assign states specifically "You can use the assign
- command for network drives." And it works, until you attempt to mount
- or dismount or generally eanything else using the "net" command, at which
- point PC-NFS crashes the machine... :-)
-
- >PC-NFS used to provide its own remapping command but I've heard that they
- >took it out. (Is this true??)
-
- Anyone know???
-
- >
- >Dale Frye
- >Washington University in St. Louis
-